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Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
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Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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You must be as joyful when you fail again and again as you are joyful when you succeed. It is often when you fail that you move toward the goal without being aware of it. You must feel joy even when you have not fully succeeded but only moved toward achievement of your goal.
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All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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If we become aware of its limitations and compulsions, we can transcend them.
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There must be relaxation in full extension.
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When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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One has to see oneself through one's actions, works, and mind. Knowing the Self by the self is not as easy as writing that line. A yogi sees things in every movement he makes, maybe when practicing, maybe when teaching, or maybe when talking to people. You should have courage in your convictions and pursue what is dear to you all these years.
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If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Many ask me whether pranayama ... postpones old age. Why worry about it? Death is certain. Let it come when it comes. Just keep working. The soul has no age. It doesn't die. Only the body decays. And yet, we must never forget the body, since it is the garden we must cherish and cultivate.
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Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Be inspired but not proud.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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Action is movement with intelligence
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The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.
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Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Where there is yoga,
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar